Dreams | Readwise

A dream journal is essential for working with dreams. The dream journal becomes a book of mysterious wisdom cloaked in veils of symbolism. At first, as we record our dreams, only tiny clues reveal themselves, but the dream book will build from one dream to another, and we will eventually see patterns and repetitions, and a larger story reveals itse

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the dreaming brain was not simply recapitulating or re-creating exactly what happened to them in the maze. Rather, the dream algorithm was cherry-picking salient fragments of the prior learning experience, and then attempting to place those new experiences within the back catalog of preexisting knowledge. Like an insightful interviewer, dreaming ta

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Every thought, vision, and idea that frequently occurs in our psyche happens for a reason. Our dreams are our destiny’s way of communicating with us. We spend far too much of our time looking at our dreams through the veils of the challenges that live between us and our desires. When we approach our dreams with the energy that says “I can, I will,

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